The alternative therapies that can help cancer patients - Walla! health

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Cancer patients often face difficult treatments, which come at a heavy price. Today there is a way to relieve cancer patients, even if in the eyes of many this is not the accepted way. Here are all the details >>>

The alternative therapies that can help cancer patients

Cancer patients often face difficult treatments, which may cure the disease but charge a heavy price.

Unlike in the past, today there is a way to relieve cancer patients, even if in the eyes of many this is not the accepted way.

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Iris Cole

11/02/2022

Friday, 11 February 2022, 06:54 Updated: 07:22

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When we think of cancer treatments, we usually think of chemotherapy or radiation, but in recent years another area of treatment for cancer patients has developed - integrative medicine.

We invited Dr. Kobi Fried, director of the integrative medicine unit in the oncology department at Ichilov to the "Specialist Clinic" studio, to understand how acupuncture, homeopathy and touch can help cancer patients, along with the usual treatments.

"I started in this field. Even before I went to medical school, I treated people with touch and healing, and I was very impressed with the results," Dr. Fried said. So complementary medicine.

All the way I did was to reach that combination. ”Today Dr. Fried runs a unit whose entire purpose is to alleviate the difficulty - both physical and emotional - that cancer patients experience during treatments and the journey to recovery.

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And this is a point that is important to understand.

These treatments do not cure cancer or treat the disease, but help with the suffering of the patients on the way to healing.

"Integrative therapy does not treat cancer, the integrative concept comes and says that it is possible to alleviate the suffering and physical and mental distress of oncology patients, both as a result of the disease and the side effects of the treatments, even in non-pharmacological methods - complementary medicine, acupuncture, touch, body, mind. , And other methods that exist in the spectrum of integrative medicine, ”Dr. Fried explained.

Are these methods scientifically proven?

These methods, the expert explained, actually come to encourage and support the healing powers of the body and mind of the patients to overcome and reduce the side effects, the suffering and the pain.

But do not let the phrase "healing powers of the body" confuse you.

"This field is a fact-based field. The treatments we do at Ichilov are treatments that have been scientifically proven to alleviate suffering," Dr. Fried explained.

Fact-based therapy.

Acupuncture (Photo: ShutterStock)

For example, homeopathic remedies, which are made from natural ingredients that undergo a very large dilution, he says help cancer patients.

"There is no active ingredient there, it is not clear how it works, it is not clear if it is energy that is there, but it can be unequivocally research-proven," said Dr. Fried, "I say this because I also do research, and also because there was "A publication in 2013 in Rats that showed that homeopathic treatment was effective against placebo, as well as work published in 2021."

Restoring control to the patient

Nearly 80 percent of oncology patients have used complementary medicine methods, according to studies in the field, and this is one of the reasons why this system was opened in Ichilov, which works in full cooperation with the oncology staff.

And so it works in the other major medical centers in the country.

"You can reach us as early as possible, already at the stage of detecting the cancerous growth. There is a procedure that takes time - tests, biopsy and more - and already at this stage we can help, even in the body-mind level, with methods like mindfulness, positive thinking, working meditations with breaths. Tools that reduce anxiety, "Dr. Fried explained, adding that" we have medical massage therapy, reflexology, these can also be soothing.

There are a variety of treatments. "

To watch the full interview:

Iris Cole interviews Dr. Kobi Fried of Ichilov on integrative treatment for cancer patients (Walla system)

How It Works?

"Every session begins with a conversation with me, in the office or on the phone if it is impossible to get there, where I learn about the needs, the pain, the stress, where they are on the oncology journey, and together we build the treatment," Dr. Fried explained, "and it is very significant For oncology patients, especially the young ones.

One of the first things these patients experience is a loss of control, and working with us in building treatment procedures and respectively, the whole issue of control comes back to them, and that's another thing that reduces stress.

"" One of the most significant experiences is seeing people in the hallway "From a 50-minute treatment, a little more with calm, a little more breathing," he said in conclusion.